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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Tuesday told off critics who have accused Brazil of reducing food production in favor of ethanol, according to a report from Bloomberg News. Instead, Lula says record oil prices and rich countries' farm

First Cellulosic Ethanol Plant in the US
The first demonstration-scale cellulosic ethanol plant in the United States is now open! The verenium biorefinery in Jennings, Louisiana, will produce 1.4 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol a year with

Courtesy of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer comes this nifty side-by-side comparison chart (see here for a blown-up version). The article does a nice job of running through the (many) problems associated with biofuels,

A few years ago, I wouldn’t have known who Jeffrey Sachs was had I not walked into my university bookstore and beelined my way towards a book jacket announcing a special foreword by Bono. Always a fan of Bono’s music and philanthropic work, and intrigued

It's not often we find ourselves agreeing with President Bush's viewpoint but, in the case of the subsidy-larded farm bill, we'll make an exception. As Ken Cook, president of the Environmental Working Group,

When the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) announced its first National Goodwill Ambassador to promote environmental responsibility yesterday, they picked the right person: actress Zhou Xun. Sure, Zhou has green cred -- she turns off the tap

Though they may share many of the same compounds and properties, "green gasoline," the creation of UMass chemical engineer George Huber, differs from regular gasoline in one important respect: it can be produced from biomass sources. And, unlike the

Why bother with corn ethanol - heck, even cellulosic ethanol - when biogasoline will do in a pinch? Wisconsin-based Virent Energy Systems, whose liquid biofuel-powered hydrogen generator we covered a few years back, is collaborating with Royal Dutch

"We shouldn't let the perfect be the enemy of the good," says Charlie Territo from the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, as we weave our way through the latest and greatest green technologies at this year's New York International Auto Show.

Ah ethanol, we're never quite sure what to make of it. Sometimes we hear that ethanol is not as pointless as we thought, and then we learn that it may even be worse than its fossil-fuel brethren. But whatever our opinion, the undeniable fact is that

Biofuels have been getting a rough ride in the media recently. Only last month we saw headlines from two studies arguing that land use changes may nix any environmental benefits of many biofuels, while they have also been singled out as a contributing

Every day TreeHugger is filled with battery powered Mercedes or hydrogen powered road rockets as if these are the answers that will keep us humming. Everyone is investing in cars and the fuels or batteries that run them while $ 3.2 billion is being

May not be long before a bad summer drought in the corn belt leads to radical gasoline price hikes - as early as this summer if La Niña holds up. The risk offers the prospect of a fantastic 2008 election season. With corn providing 6% or more of